to intrigue

Examples

• All

• He appointed rivals to his cabinet and picked Salmon Chase, who had frequently intrigued against him, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

  Academic text (2017)

• Can't you see that they are trying hard to intrigue us?

  Heirloom (2019)

• Have you not come here to intrigue with me?

  The Duellists (1977)

• You have an honest soldier's face, General, but you have come here to intrigue with me.

  The Duellists (1977)

• Gentlemen, you intrigue me.

  The Music Man (1962)

• The idea that someone as old and physically unfit as Kane can beat someone as fit as CM Punk in any given match intrigues me.

  Blog text (2)

• Then Paekche intrigued with Wa and invaded Silla.

  Academic text (2002)

• In Elizabethan Norfolk, factional politics became so fraught that several gentlemen intrigued at court to have their name placed above a local rival at the next renewal of the commission of the peace.

  Academic text (2009)

• The politician attempted to intrigue his supporters with promises of reform.

• She intrigued her classmates by organizing secret study sessions before the exam.

Synonyms

C

to conspire

vsto intrigue

130 5.8

To secretly plan with other people to do something illegal or harmful

often involves a single person making secret plans rather than collaboration

P

to plot

vsto intrigue

120 4.8

To make a secret plan to do something illegal

is used for secret planning generally, not only harmful acts

C

to concoct

vsto intrigue

46 6.0

Make up a story or excuse to trick people

focuses on secret planning with dishonest intent rather than simple invention

C

to connive

vsto intrigue

• Formal

19 8.8

Secretly allow or help someone to do something wrong

involves actively making secret plans rather than merely permitting them

S

to scheme

vsto intrigue

14 6.5

To make secret plans to do something dishonest

is about secret planning often for wrongdoing rather than neutral planning

M

to machinate

vsto intrigue

• Formal

1 9.9

To make secret plans to do something bad

is more general, not always stressing clever deviousness

How Devious

to conspire

130 5.8

to plot

120 4.8

to intrigue

1 7.9

to scheme

14 6.5

to connive

• Formal

19 8.8

Surface Forms

Etymology